Two cases were filed against over 1,200 leaders and activists of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party over Tuesday’s clash between Chhatra League and BNP activists in front of Government Bangla College in Dhaka’s Mirpur area during the opposition’s road march in the capital.
Police arrested 18 opposition activists after the clash, said Darus Salam police officer-in-charge Aminul Bashar.
In Dhaka, the road march came under attack in the Bangla College area, triggering a clash that left at least 30 injured, including 20 AL supporters, witnesses said.
A student of Bangla College, Rubel Hossain, filed one of the cases naming 120 BNP and associate bodies’ leaders and activists on Tuesday. 500 more unidentified people were made accused in the case.
The student of the college filed the case with Darus Salam police station on the charge of setting fire to a motorcycle during the march and attacking and injuring college students with the intention of killing them with sticks, the police said in a statement on Wednesday.
So far, eight people were arrested in this case and sent to court, OC Aminul said.
Meanwhile, an official of Bangla College, Mohidur Rahman, lodged another case naming 109 people with Darus Salam police station on charge of vandalising the buildings of Government Bangla College and damaging other government properties.
Ten people were arrested over the incident so far, police said.
OC Aminul said that the arrested ones were involved in BNP politics.
Asked, why BCL activists were not named in the cases, the police officer said that their investigation would find the persons responsible for the incident.
